June 2008 - Posts

• Yes, No, Okay, Cancel!: I/O Cancellation in Windows

  One of the leading causes of crashes for Microsoft Windows can be traced to device drivers that do not handle cancel requests properly, or at all. Cancellation is one of the most difficult concepts in driver technology to get right, and this blog entry Read More... Posted Monday, June 30, 2008 3:51 PM by wdkblog | 2 Comments Filed under: I/O cancellation kernel

• Refresh of the Kernel-Mode Driver Architecture Reference section

  Hi, I’m Seth McEvoy and I’m the writer for the Kernel-Mode Driver Architecture section of the Windows Driver Kit (WDK). My section is here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa973498.aspx . I’ve only been writing on the kernel for about a year, Read More... Posted Friday, June 27, 2008 12:31 AM by wdkblog | 0 Comments Filed under: kernel mode

• Declaring functions in KMDF and WDM Drivers

  The Windows Driver Kit for Windows Vista with Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Windows Server 2008 introduces a new way to declare your event callback functions for KMDF drivers and dispatch routines for WDM drivers. This new type of declaration uses function Read More... Posted Monday, June 23, 2008 4:13 PM by wdkblog | 3 Comments

• Error in the "Synchronizing Cancellation of Sent Requests” WDK Topic

  An error has been identified in the WDK topic, “ Synchronizing Cancellation of Sent Requests ”, and is being corrected. This topic, which is part of the documentation for Kernel Mode Driver Framework (KMDF), incorrectly indicates that a driver and its Read More... Posted Friday, June 13, 2008 8:20 PM by wdkblog | 1 Comments

• WDK Docs Updated for May 2008

  The Windows Driver Kit (WDK) documentation set on the Microsoft Developer Network ( MSDN ) and the Windows Hardware Developer Central ( WHDC ) Web sites has been updated for May 2008. The WDK documentation team has updated the documentation to address Read More... Posted Thursday, June 05, 2008 12:57 AM by wdkblog | 0 Comments Filed under: updates